Alberto Navoni itibaren Mesteri, Hungary

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05/03/2024

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2018-12-17 07:40

Değişen Toplumlar Değişmeyen Siyaset: Ortadoğu-Kolektif TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bağlam Yayınları

Better than average. Full review here: http://stackedbooks.blogspot.com/2011...

2018-12-17 08:40

Kaçak - Hanımın Çiftliği 3 TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Everest Yayınları

Perhaps, dear reader, you think that as I write my mind is filled with visions of the island, that nothing is important to me except the efforts to fish out of memory clearly-drawn pictures of the landscape of the island. Perhaps you think I consider you a remote figure, unreal and bothersome, a figure that disturbs my dreams and at whose behest I have to demean and exert myself by transferring glowing images into dark, clumsy words, to bind the manacles of grammar and syntax the free, light motions of waves, sands, and winds that linger in my memory. Perhaps you think that because of this I hate you, that I consider you the agent of my misfortune, that I set at my computer keyboard--whose gentle tapping beneath my fingers is transformed into the sounds of gravel underfoot on the scorched paths of the island's rocks--hatching plans which do you harm, which use language to ensnare. Calling all Calvino and Borges fans: proceed with caution. Michal Ajvaz's most recent translation, The Golden Calf, introduces to a matrushka doll of literary devices. Vertiginous descent into the concept of philosophy of aesthetics that spirals down and up again in its own narrative. But, The Golden Calf is also a work that either will mystify the reader with its brilliance or make the reader not only want to throw the book across the room, but to hunt down the author and flog him mercilessly into an admission of self-indulgence. What exactly is this piece of work? Satiric travelogue! Philosophical commentary! Artistic masterpiece! Perhaps it is all of these things as many reviewers will have you believe. It also a uncommon, difficult, frustrating read that takes too long to prove its point. The authorial winking gets tiresome. You have never been this 'dear reader'ed' as sarcastically as in this book. But by the time Ajvaz begins the question asking--Are you with me, dear reader? Have I frustrated you yet, dear reader? Do you see what I am doing, dear reader?--Ajvaz may not realize that the reader left fifty pages ago. It begins with the author describing his stay on an island in the Atlantic. He left his native country, Czechoslovakia, and lingers on an island of apathetic natives whose interpretation of life is different than what we know. Here are a few of their characteristics and beliefs: -The islanders did not drink alcohol or use drugs (with one exception, of which I shall speak later), but their love of rustling and other quiet sounds, sounds which we rarely perceive, had something in common with an addiction to drugs: the were able to listen all day long to the rush of the sea or the sound of the wind through a crack in the wall. -On the island meaningfulness was taken as something base, almost something indecent, and the islanders saw a great many shades of pleasure in the meaningless. -But there was no thievery and murder on the island. Although morality and humaneness meant nothing to the islanders, they were strangers, too, to egoism, and they were too dreamy and lazy to do evil. -For this reason there was no silence on the island. After some time, I, too, learned to perceive that which I had taken for silence as an open country subtle sounds, as speech, as the whisperings of a faceless god. -Although in the days when I was on the island, a tendency towards a pictographic script was predominant, one could see many other tendencies dormant under the surface of their texts--some on the wane, some just being born. The islanders also had a kind of literature, of course, not least their Book (which I will get to presently, I trust), but I sometimes think that the story of the island's script makes up a more interesting narrative than all the stories contained in their works. -Averroes writers that the islanders believe that the souls of the dead live on in stains on walls, that they prove this by a curious concatenation of evidence: souls are incorporeal so they must dwell in something with a material volume; volume lacks two-dimensional form, and as stains on walls are two-dimensional, souls undoubtedly reside in stains. Along with these and a myriad of other creative and interesting descriptions of their food and architecture, board games and home design, there are digressions and beginnings. Stories that intrigue but never end, forever interrupted by other stories and memories. Ajvaz presents the idea of the Book and creates its likeness with the narrative of his own book, cleverly alluded to in this passage: The story I told at the feast was no doubt influenced at least a little by the island's Book, although for a long time I found this maze of adventure stories, fairy tales and myths about rabbits, princes and princesses, whose descriptions, insertions, digressions, improbabilities and anachronisms knew no end, quite insufferable. The narrative shifts from its own island rules and descriptions to the focus of the Book. The book has pockets that unfold all throughout itself, filed with stories that contain alternatives texts, histories, commentary and other stories. The narrator even introduces another character, Baumgarten, who tells him a story about a thief who breaks into his house to get money to buy a painting that 'is a great book of stories.' Once we are introduced to the Book, then a fairy tale based on the history of the island plays out with all the classical elements of a medieval fairy tale. This is a tale of two feuding men, Tana and Taal. They each have their own kingdoms, Ilim an Devel, respectively. This is what the reader has yearned for...something to follow. There is relief when we are presented with a structure we know and understand. Point taken by the post-modernist reader. Ajvaz's set-up for this is too long. Sure, if you stick with it and if you don't mind his antics, this is a inspired book that oozes creativity. But the 'if' is too large, too tenuous. That's where the self-indulgence comes in. Obviously, Ajvaz is taking an exercise in intellectual and philosophical conceit to the farthest of boundaries. At times, I wondered if this was enough. In the end, it was too difficult to come to a definitive conclusion that answered that question. I was relieved that I had survived. I can appreciate his intellectual perspicacity and his artistic ambition and execution, but I felt it was more provocative about the function of writing and art than a satisfying read. I think that the translation by Andrew Oakland was phenomenal and must have been a beast. If I felt this relieved when I finished reading it, I can only manage what he felt upon translating the final word. I also felt there were many times when concrete specifics could have been used opposed to the amoeba-like descriptions of the abstract. In particular, there was a scene in which the narrator fixes for the islanders a traditional meal but fails to include their reaction. There are lots of sensory examples where the abstract trumps the concrete when the narrative might have been served better by countradistinguishing to emphasize the difference. Still, I loved Ajvaz's first work translated into English, The Other City. To unpack this novel as a reader would just send you into madness, leaving with endless plot devices, story elements and digressions scattered all over your mind. So, dear reader, if you are patient and tolerant, this could an effort that will take your mind places it has never been and might not want to go. As for you, dear author, you of the unparalleled imagination, give a reader a break once and awhile.

2018-12-17 09:40

Celal Bayar Arşivinden Serbest Fırka Anıları - Emine Gürsoy Naskali TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Kitap

This book was very slow. I did not like how the main character, Rose went back in the past and then in to the present. As a middle aged woman, myself, I could relate to her insecurites and also cheer her on for being comfortable with herself.

2018-12-17 10:40

Allah'ın Elçisi Hz. Muhammed'in Hayatı (2 Kitap) - Salih Suruç TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları

It's hard to get past her writing style and confrontational/presumptuous/pushy comments toward "you". I know there's some quality writing and thought buried in there, but I found myself caught up by the comments I felt were directed against the reader.

2018-12-17 11:40

Çikolatayı Kim Yiyecek-Ayla Çınaroğlu TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Uçanbalık Yayıncılık

I loved this book. The story is engaging, the characters are well developed and it is very thought-provoking. I was especially interested in changing dynamic of Afghanistan through time. I think it is difficult sometimes to imagine what it is like to be a citizen of a war-torn country, or what it was like to live in that country before the conflict began. As I read I became more curious about the culture of the Afghani people, which led me to read The Bookseller of Kabul (also on my books list).

2018-12-17 12:40

Görme Duyusu-John Berger TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Agora Kitaplığı

I broke my rule of not looking at any GoodReads reviews before I wrote mine, but I'm still not changing my five stars. Which isn't to say I found it flawless (no book is). But I am surprised that quite a few people rated it with so few stars. What I loved about this book was the writing - beautiful and lyrical. Man, I could smell that dog fur. It is an odd story - why did the author choose to make Edgar mute? Perhaps that was obvious to other readers but I don't really get it, other than it's so cool that the dogs respond to sign language. But despite being a sad story, I found it very comforting somehow. My only criticism is that wow, it's a long book and it probably could have been even better if it had been trimmed down a bit. But I enjoyed it all the same.

2018-12-17 13:40

Room (Gizli Dünya) (DVD) TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: DVD

I will never forget finding this on my step-father's book shelf after i had read everything else in the house. And then discovering that the use of the word, "bondage" wasn't unintentional. This was actual porn.

2018-12-17 14:40

Ronaldo - Luca Caioli TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Martı Yayınları

The first book in the Gallagher Girls series, I found this a light, funny and enjoyable book. Young adult is not a category I'd normally choose to read. However, this book was very readable and entertaining. It made me want to be in spy school and I'm twenty nine. I'd describe it as similar to 'Alias' but with less bad guys and more laughter. The ending, which could have been predictable, wasn't. I loved it; a series I would definitely like to continue reading.

2018-12-17 15:40

İlk Boyama Kitabım :Hayvanat Bahçesi TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: 1001 Çiçek

This was an easy-read, romance novel. I enjoyed the story, but think that the author could have built up the ending more. It seemed like the ending was rushed.

2018-12-17 16:40

Güliver Cüceler Ülkesinde TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk

Very suspenseful! I actually stayed awake to finish this book last night, which is an amazing thing in itself. Ivy is near the end of her pregnancy, and she is just doing all of the regular "getting ready for the baby" things when a strange lady enters her life. All of the craziness begins at the garage sale Ivy and her husband are having. I will certainly remember this story when I go to another garage sale, which I frequently do in the summer.

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